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Grinning, he left.

Chapter 33

The next few days passed that way for her. She worked and watched, being careful. Geo ran whatever errands he ran with Mig, and Davon and Phoenix watched her. After a few days, she convinced Geo that they bothered her too much and they could babysit her from the living room or dining room so their talking and phones weren’t distracting her.

Geo listened to her and snorted, but nodded. “The fuck is goin’ on there?” he asked of the graphic she had on the far screen.

“Ok, all these squares? They’re bank accounts. See how some are barely full, some are half full, and so on?”

“Why they movin’ and shit?”

“That represents the money being shuffled. This is just a sort of a visual aid so you can see where everything is. They wiggle and shake money out to the ones underneath and they shake more out to those, see? See, look at that one, it’s almost full. Watch… see?!?”

“It split in two?”

“Yeah, one of the accounts I set up that was latent up until now, it just got money put into it. This way, none of them get too full, they don’t go up past the watch list. As long as I have accounts ready to catch overflow, we’re good.”

“What’s that up there?”

“That’s the sort of timer on the program I’m running.”

“Why’s it look like a lit fuse?”

“It’s meant to! See, when it gets here? Times up, the bomb metaphorically goes off. The old program is destroyed and the new one is ignited. I have them all on timers, one picking up right after the other goes off.”

“So how much money you got in there?”

“Each box represents $500,000. I have nine more latent accounts, but I can set up more and shuffle as long as I need to, but now’s about the time you need to open a bank account so I can start filtering in slowly.”

He snorted again, looking over the graphic. “Say I open an account… how much money will it have by this time next week?”

“Like I said, this is a long game, not a short game. It’s going to catch small overflow with deposits once a day. It’s going to start small and build. Once it hits 10 K, it’s going to build faster and you’ll need to spread it out.”

“When will it hit 10K?”

“Depends on when you open the account so I can start filtering into it.”

“Yeah,” he muttered, then shrugged. “Say I have an account, you…”

“You’re going to need a new one, separate from your personal account. An LLC or something that can’t be traced to you.”

He snorted again, shaking his head. “Yeah, aight. I got me someone for that. Lemme call ‘m. I’ll get you what you need in an hour.”

Sailor nodded, then watched him go. She was getting closer and closer to making him trust her! Soon, he wouldn’t have a babysitter here for her at all! They would be alone, and she would have a chance to get away!

When she went to see her mom, she hung on Geo and smiled like she was happy, joking with him and her mom and grandmother. She even teased Mig a bit. When they got backhome, she noticed Davon glowering at her, and she heaved a huge sigh. Turning back to Geo, she looked up at him.

“What?” he asked, his lip curled.

“Do you really need him here? He’s just a complete grump all the time now, it's ridiculous! Can’t you put him on something else?”

“I asked him if he wanted to start runnin’ again, he said nah. He wants ta be here.”

“I know he does, and that’s kind of the point. His attention is weighing on me, stressing me out. He still likes me and he doesn’t care that I don’t feel the same… I just want him away from me.”

“Pshh, that fool won’t fuck with you, Rue. He knows better.”

“Yeah, he just gives me sad looks and glares at me like I’ve personally done him a wrong. I’m just over it, I’ve told him to stop and he just glares at me.”

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